tutorial

Had another tutorial with Pat about my professional practice and presence. I showed my categories of work which he thought was a strong collection which I'm happy about, the main actions I need to carry out:

• start working on my creative CV and website design (look at 'Wordpress'); do some research into examples I like and post on blog. Keep the text to a minimum, juts focus on my skills, make the CV a piece of work
• buy a domain name
• do some research into children's book/illustrated book publishers, go to waterstones and have a look around at some good examples - try and see where my work could fit
• prepare a list of editors that I want to contact (picture editors)
• start writing an email for a picture editor, bullet point some questions - Pat has a contact email to let me use
• maybe consider going back into animation as my cut out work would look good simply animated

categories

Patrick suggested breaking my work into categories before setting up a website - auditing my work as well, throwing out all the bits that are irrelevant to my practice or just not as good. These are the sections I came up with:

Book Covers/Narrative

Food

Nature

I feel like these give a good breadth of the type of work I do - they show different processes (watercolour, collage - digital and handmade, mono print, textures) yet still fit together, there is a tone of voice connecting them all.